The steam engine was invented by Thomas Newcomen in 17121. It was a very important invention and helped give way to the Industrial Revolution. It was very useful invention of his time. Many people like James Watt and Richard Trevithick used the atmospheric steam engine to produce more sophisticated inventions. Thomas Newcomen was a very important inventor. He was born in 1663 in Britain. He worked as a blacksmith until he worked with Thomas Savery, who had …showed first 75 words of 1184 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1184 total…powerful they lasted more than 130 years after Newcomen’s death in 172911. When Newcomen died, he had hundreds of his own engines running in mines in Britain, France, Belgium, Holland, Sweden, and Hungary12. Life would be really different if it wasn’t for the invention of the steam engine. The Wright brothers would not have the invented an engine that could fly an airplane, and the idea of using steam engines in boats wouldn’t exist.